Airtel Uganda Friday morning handed over prizes to its subscribers in the 8th draw of the on-going Mega Masappe competition. This draw saw Deborah Nabukenya , a farmer based in Nakasongola, drive off in a brand new Toyota Premio and two lucky subscribers, Nicholas Mugiira and Jackson Zakaria Ndiwayezu, take
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Top Ugandan musician-turned-legislator says he wants to use his star power to spark “political change” in a country where President Yoweri Museveni has ruled for 31 years and parliament plans to introduce a bill to allow him to run again. Most popular musicians in the prospective oil producer have either
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The Tanzanian government has given the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, seven days to help repatriate those Burundian refugees who want to go home, or the Tanzanian authorities will do the job themselves. The UNHCR estimates that there are 240,000 Burundians in Tanzania who have fled the political turmoil, and some
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The Uganda shilling held its ground in a flat market as demand remained weak for the week ending 25th August 2017. Trading was in the range of 3595/3605. In the interbank money market, the Shilling rates were equally stable trading at 7% for overnight and 10 % for 1 week
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The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was jailed for five years for bribery on Friday after a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the president, Reuters reports. Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favors from then president Park Geun-hye, according to a
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Tanzania and Kenya have ended a two-month diplomatic row that led to import bans of some products and resulted in heavy financial losses for businesses from either side. The cessation of hostilities came after President Uhuru Kenyatta and Tanzania's John Magufuli stepped in to end what was fast degenerating into
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Google has started policing YouTube like it never did before, adding warnings and disabling advertising on videos that the company determines crosses its new threshold for offensive content. The crackdown started on Thursday. YouTube isn’t removing the selected videos, but is instead setting new restrictions on viewing, sharing and making
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By Godfrey Kenneth Gobba Often times, because we don’t really understand how inflation wipes out our purchasing power over the years, we usually don’t consider protecting it from inflationary erosion as a priority. Purchasing power is how much your money can buy. It is how many kilos of sugar or
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Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) Thursday revealed that elections for Local Council (LC) one will take place on November21, 2017. Addressing the press at EC offices in Kampala, Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC Chairman said that LC1 voting will not be by secret ballot but rather voters will line up behind
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Sexual harassment, an overthrown chief executive, bitter boardroom in-fighting and a major lawsuit have not affected Uber's business. Quite the opposite. Figures published by news website Axios (which the BBC has confirmed are accurate) show the ride-sharing company's revenues are increasing, its losses are narrowing, and global bookings are up 150% on
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